Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
针的滴答声贯穿全片，营造出一种无法挥散的焦虑和紧迫感，是年龄焦虑，是创作焦虑，人终有一死，我们应当用有限的时间做什么？
故事简单之极，为什么还需要旁白？因为真人真事改编。确实，全篇唯一倚仗的就是真人真事改编了。感情线尤其稀碎。
艺术是昂贵的，梦想更是，功能名就之前，需要付出的不仅仅是金钱，还有大量的时间和精力，甚至牺牲与身边人正常相处的模式。也正因为这样，梦想实现的时候，才显得那么美妙。可惜这个世界大多数时候都是庸俗的，你的作品很好，但太过文艺，无法变现，你唯一的办法就是继续下去，不断地写新作品，直到等来被大众接受的那天。Jon是个英年早逝的天才，是悲剧也是幸运，还有多少为艺术付出一生的人在被生活逼到最终绝境的那一刻，依旧在角落里默默无闻，唉。
加菲演的John像一只癫狂又脆弱的小鹿，有着诗人般的浪漫和无尽的哀伤与喜悦。过去的种种时光，纵然潦倒憔悴，纵然惴惴不安，但它们仍能为人生漫漫长夜留下最璀璨的划痕。尽管生命注定消逝，尽管倒数的滴答声一直响彻脑海，还是要抓紧一切时间去生活去体会去感受。
如果你喜欢broadway音乐剧，或者了解Jonathan Larson本人，或许会喜欢本片。但是作为不看音乐剧的人，这片子最大的问题就是太不像电影，导演太自我陶醉于致敬和缅怀，而没能讲好故事，两个时空（tick tick…boom音乐剧时空，和回忆中创作superbia的时空）观感上撕裂太严重，用来填充歌曲的画面也不够紧凑和好看，甚至歌曲都没能好听到让人记得几首。看完只能让人觉得男主角是another struggling artist in New York，纽约有太多太多这样的人了。PS，加菲演的没问题，歌喉也不错，但是现在吹的那么凶的拿奥斯卡男主肯定是没希望的。
tick，tick，梦想？友情？爱情？不管是乔森反复强调的即将到来的30岁，或是感染艾滋深感时日不多的发小，还是女友不断强调的deadline…即将到来的演示会，电费的欠费通知…滴答声在耳边嗡嗡作响——这是一个关于时间的故事。音乐剧的自白，交织着跌跌撞撞的追梦旅途，琐碎的日常，和崩坏边缘的情绪。倒数吧，请求这些糟透的一切都进入倒数吧，爱会来的，梦会实现的，百老汇的会听到你的歌声，你的名字会成为传闻。
作为路人粉觉得无功无过，作为音乐电影应该在镜头、艺术设计上多加功夫，电影明显更像一部舞台剧，倒是加菲的表演提升了一个档次。
第一次觉得安德鲁·加菲尔德是个那么有实力的演员，凡妮莎虽然在一些近景镜头中已经开始有点老，但一唱起来依然明艳照人。羡慕他们的演员有这么多的好机会去发挥和成长，像这种音乐一响世界尽在掌握的感觉，我在国产片里一次都没见到。还想说上次看到那么嗨的歌舞片还是《汉密尔顿》，然后就发现导演就是《汉密尔顿》的作者。
这部片作为歌舞片最大的问题，就是在于歌舞不行....当然剧情也很俗套，配角真的也很工具人，加菲的演出也很夸张...可能要展现热情（但是他看女友那段我觉得情绪很好 很帅 保持）
这是一部让人心潮澎湃的电影！是一封写给音乐剧的情书！故事以闪回、以现实与音乐剧巧妙结合的方式推进，聚焦百老汇传奇剧作家乔拉森·拉尔森30岁前后的创作焦虑与人生困境，展现了他实现音乐梦想的无比执着和赤诚。Tick，Tick，Boom! 贯穿全片滴答作响的时针，营造了时光流逝男主年届三十一事无成的焦虑和压力，烘托了气氛。
懂了，我离灵感乍现梦想成真就差学会游泳了，明天就去游。加菲是我能get到的那种带着聪明劲儿的帅气，加上手长脚长，演得挺有说服力。歌好听，用一出戏来串场也很美好。人到后来才发现，一生的导演演员观众，都是自己罢了。幕拉开的时候没有人是准备好的，天才也一样。而落幕的时候，所有人都觉得不够。
'三十而立这种东西怎么全世界都一样的
30岁前夕同样焦虑过，过了也就没感觉了。不太喜欢这种剪辑凌乱、直白抒情的风格，无法沉浸，但确实看得出才华横溢
虽然到现在我还是不太能get到rent也不太能get到天才的年龄焦虑，但整体剧情挺流畅的歌曲也好听，观看的过程很舒畅，对于路人来说也就是一部很不错的电影了
Lin-Manuel Miranda居然是导演，太有才了。Andrew Garfield璞玉浑金，如果凭借此片拿2022第94届奥斯卡最佳男主的话可以说实至名归，期待他更多惊喜的作品。
音乐与剧情似乎一直很激昂，但我的心从头到尾几乎都是波澜不惊…并不是很令我感冒的音乐，可能真实但确实俗套的剧情，真的是让人大失所望，只想高呼一句:《爱乐之城》和《马戏之王》永远的神！
老实说这一部在传统上并不是那种最后走向成功的电影，选择了拉森最失意的一个时期来拍摄，但是刚刚进入电影业界的LMM在镜头语言的运用上显然还并不算熟练，有一些地方因为太有舞台布景的既视感反而让我产生了一种“我要看这个为什么不去剧场看”的感觉，用一句话来说就是“全是真诚，没有技巧”。
2021M102/10 对妥协的傲慢，这种不屈就，是永动机的能量来源。太爱《傲慢》里的几首曲子，太想完整的看这部剧。每当作者的思想如电锯般迸溅出火花时，就迫不及待把自己迎上去，看到外壳破绽开一个个焦黑火红的洞并渐渐燎原扩大，那感觉，痛并快乐着！
他们通过记住和记录他的笑容来缅怀敬爱的他，加菲的演绎更是还原出了这个人物的感染力和人格魅力。戏里戏外相互嵌套的形式、倒数计时的多重寓意与歌词纸条、游泳等等细节也让这部电影的视听系统有很多的可读性，5星给这些才华横溢勇往直前的艺术家。
纵你这样那样那样这样热泪盈眶，可歌真的不好听，远不如爱乐之城，连一个明星的诞生都比不上。0522
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